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Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

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Re: Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

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I wish he could lose his job for being so ungrateful and out of touch with reality and learn how truly privileged he is. This guy needs a wake up call ASAP. Also, look at how disgusting some of the comments are on the cache, truly disgusting: "The poor are inferior to the rich in the U.S. The ones who are rich have used the system to generally move up, not manipulate the rest of the population as the liberal biters/h…

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Re: Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

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Not really saying all that much. We earn over $250k so we're considered superich though that's not fair because we're not really rich because we spend all our money on normal stuff like house and groceries and richer people evade taxes offshore but we're not rich enough to do that and we could evade taxes by pretending to be divorced but we're too moral to do that and if you tax us we'll have to fire our gardener and…

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He's already taken the original post down, did anyone capture it and want to repost?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kpzaEp0...

Damn, you would think a lawyer of all people would be more careful with trying to destroy the evidence!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kpzaEp0...

Damn, you would think a lawyer of all people would be more careful with trying to destroy the evidence!

Content removals can take up to 24 hours with Google webmaster tools.

Re: Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

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I wish he could lose his job for being so ungrateful and out of touch with reality and learn how truly privileged he is. This guy needs a wake up call ASAP. Also, look at how disgusting some of the comments are on the cache, truly disgusting: "The poor are inferior to the rich in the U.S. The ones who are rich have used the system to generally move up, not manipulate the rest of the population as the liberal biters/h…

Hopefully he will keep his job if he is good at it. No sense wasting that education when lawyers can learn good practice from him, even if his politics suck. You are basically advocating employer censoring of employees' private political opinions and expression, which is a dark road to advocate if there ever was one.

Re: Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

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post #12
post #8

Not really saying all that much. We earn over $250k so we're considered superich though that's not fair because we're not really rich because we spend all our money on normal stuff like house and groceries and richer people evade taxes offshore but we're not rich enough to do that and we could evade taxes by pretending to be divorced but we're too moral to do that and if you tax us we'll have to fire our gardener and…

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As much as I sometimes differ with Obama's policies, you do not seem to understand what Marxism is at all and would do well to read up on it before trying to say who is or isn't a Marxist. You can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism. See the part about the proletarian revolution? Not exactly something Obama is pushing for, among many, many other differences between his policies and Marxism.

Re: Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

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post #9

A few lessons here re the blog post being referred to: 1. The title "professor" does not confer knowledge, intelligence or wisdom. 2. Know that your online audience is diverse even if your regular readers aren't. 3. If you're in a prominent non-activist position, avoid discussing politics, religion or sex. 4. Never disclose details about your personal life, especially financials, unless you've thought it through and…

Look at the whole picture. As this man's salary grew he started to add services and dependents and a wife and a lot of other things to his budget. He basically has reached a point where it is unsustainable but now he has convinced himself that he is in a hardship.

Not so different from the general public that believes owning a home, having three or four kids, and driving new cars is a right.

Re: Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

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I wish he could lose his job for being so ungrateful and out of touch with reality and learn how truly privileged he is. This guy needs a wake up call ASAP. Also, look at how disgusting some of the comments are on the cache, truly disgusting: "The poor are inferior to the rich in the U.S. The ones who are rich have used the system to generally move up, not manipulate the rest of the population as the liberal biters/h…

Hopefully he will keep his job if he is good at it. No sense wasting that education when lawyers can learn good practice from him, even if his politics suck. You are basically advocating employer censoring of employees' private political opinions and expression, which is a dark road to advocate if there ever was one.

We can wish for bad karma though

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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As much as I sometimes differ with Obama's policies, you do not seem to understand what Marxism is at all and would do well to read up on it before trying to say who is or isn't a Marxist. You can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism . See the part about the proletarian revolution? Not exactly something Obama is pushing for, among many, many other differences between his policies and Marxism.

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Re: Pity the Poor Couple Who Make $450,000 Per Year

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post #9

A few lessons here re the blog post being referred to: 1. The title "professor" does not confer knowledge, intelligence or wisdom. 2. Know that your online audience is diverse even if your regular readers aren't. 3. If you're in a prominent non-activist position, avoid discussing politics, religion or sex. 4. Never disclose details about your personal life, especially financials, unless you've thought it through and…

Look at the whole picture. As this man's salary grew he started to add services and dependents and a wife and a lot of other things to his budget. He basically has reached a point where it is unsustainable but now he has convinced himself that he is in a hardship. Not so different from the general public that believes owning a home, having three or four kids, and driving new cars is a right.

Everyone spends more as they make more money. It's pretty much human nature. The difference is that most people keep some bearing on reality and realize that they have it better than almost anyone else in the world (speaking of wealthy Americans here). They can also probably imagine cutting some stuff out if need be without blogging "woe is me".
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